Finding Josephine

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It's nice to be back from a great vacation where I unplugged from my computer and soaked up the surf and sun.
Even though I wasn't blogging or researching, genealogy was never too far from me. As we made our way down to … [Read more...]

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Yesterday, I shared how my great, great-grandfather escaped the Ku Klux Klan. Well, not all of my relatives may have been so lucky.
A few weeks ago I heard a new family story - that one of my great, great-grandmother's … [Read more...]

The silver child's cup that I'm holding left me speechless as did the sentiment behind it when Joel Brink gave it to me during our first meeting this past Sunday. Joel is an art historian who has published several books about his and his wife's families. His wife, Joan … [Read more...]

I'm not quite up to the task of expressing my thoughts upon seeing this document. Nothing, not even seeing my great, great-grandmother bequeathed in a will drives home the true state of her situation as does this 1860 probate court appraisal of the "goods & chattels and … [Read more...]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, while the Howcott/Howcutt family are not blood relatives, our families are connected. Their ancestor, Hill Jones is the earliest owner I can find of my great, great-grandmother, Temple Burton. William Hill Howcott, Hill Jones's grandson, … [Read more...]